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My new roof in 4 hours...
After getting 13 bids…….The roof job is complete! :thumbsup:
Roof Bids :
A 1 Diversified Services Inc. $3,700
Mr. Roof $4,070
Aaron’s Home Improvement $4,140
Roof Pro $4,199
Bergler Construction $4,240
Mike’s Construction $4,500
Lowe’s $4,715
Dana Energy Savers Roofing $5,280
Kearns Brothers Inc. $5,385
Allen Brothers Roofing $5,700
A. H. Construction $5,720
Home Depot $6,826
Hansons $8,318
It really pays to do your homework on these companies. Some of them
offer a lifetime warranty, yet they’ve only been in business for 5 years.
Other companies won’t list their address on their paper work. Some
companies aren’t listed or rated with the Better Business Bureau.
All the companies I contacted above are fully licensed & insured.
I would not consider “part-time roofers” or “fly-by-night roofers”.
Price was not the only factor I considered. The company, the warranty,
the company’s rating, all these things together – Mr. roof won.
I would not recommended ever calling Hansons, not just because they were
ridiculously expensive & they sent two salesmen (everyone else sent one)
but because they were very dishonest, high-pressure folks who will easily
eat up 3 ½ hours of your time!
I signed the contract with Mr. Roof to do a complete shingle removal, replace any bad
wood decking (they did, 5 sheets), install iceguard 6’ up and the remainder
underlayment was the premium synthectic. They ran starter strip the full perimeter
of the roof. They installed 1 ½ black drip edge (this looks REALLY nice with the black shingles).
They replaced the 4 existing can vents & installed 5 more new ones (total now is 9).
They finished it off with 50 year black architectural shingles (6 nails per shingle), cleaned up everything & backed
it all up with a 10 year, no cost, transferable, non-prorated material AND labor warranty.
The Mr. Roof contract was signed the night of 12-7-09 with Mr. Henry Witten . The 6 man installation team, lead by
Mr. Nelson Lopez showed up just before 8am on 12-8-09. The two roofs were completed in 27 degree temperatures by 12 noon!
They completed everything on both roofs in 4 hours!
The amazing thing isn’t simply 4 hours – these guys NEVER stopped working in that
4 hours, no “smoking breaks”, no “coffee breaks” and no “just standing around”. These guys didn’t stop working
until the job was completed. Never a foul word, never a
problem. They were all very polite, helpful & ready to do whatever I asked.
Of course I expected a professional job with courtesy & quality, but I was still surprised by the high caliber of this
teams performance. They were a standard I wish all would operate at.
After getting 13 bids…….The roof job is complete! :thumbsup:
Roof Bids :
A 1 Diversified Services Inc. $3,700
Mr. Roof $4,070
Aaron’s Home Improvement $4,140
Roof Pro $4,199
Bergler Construction $4,240
Mike’s Construction $4,500
Lowe’s $4,715
Dana Energy Savers Roofing $5,280
Kearns Brothers Inc. $5,385
Allen Brothers Roofing $5,700
A. H. Construction $5,720
Home Depot $6,826
Hansons $8,318
It really pays to do your homework on these companies. Some of them
offer a lifetime warranty, yet they’ve only been in business for 5 years.
Other companies won’t list their address on their paper work. Some
companies aren’t listed or rated with the Better Business Bureau.
All the companies I contacted above are fully licensed & insured.
I would not consider “part-time roofers” or “fly-by-night roofers”.
Price was not the only factor I considered. The company, the warranty,
the company’s rating, all these things together – Mr. roof won.
I would not recommended ever calling Hansons, not just because they were
ridiculously expensive & they sent two salesmen (everyone else sent one)
but because they were very dishonest, high-pressure folks who will easily
eat up 3 ½ hours of your time!
I signed the contract with Mr. Roof to do a complete shingle removal, replace any bad
wood decking (they did, 5 sheets), install iceguard 6’ up and the remainder
underlayment was the premium synthectic. They ran starter strip the full perimeter
of the roof. They installed 1 ½ black drip edge (this looks REALLY nice with the black shingles).
They replaced the 4 existing can vents & installed 5 more new ones (total now is 9).
They finished it off with 50 year black architectural shingles (6 nails per shingle), cleaned up everything & backed
it all up with a 10 year, no cost, transferable, non-prorated material AND labor warranty.
The Mr. Roof contract was signed the night of 12-7-09 with Mr. Henry Witten . The 6 man installation team, lead by
Mr. Nelson Lopez showed up just before 8am on 12-8-09. The two roofs were completed in 27 degree temperatures by 12 noon!
They completed everything on both roofs in 4 hours!
The amazing thing isn’t simply 4 hours – these guys NEVER stopped working in that
4 hours, no “smoking breaks”, no “coffee breaks” and no “just standing around”. These guys didn’t stop working
until the job was completed. Never a foul word, never a
problem. They were all very polite, helpful & ready to do whatever I asked.
Of course I expected a professional job with courtesy & quality, but I was still surprised by the high caliber of this
teams performance. They were a standard I wish all would operate at.
